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June 22, 2005

I (heart) Merlin and other nerds

43 Folders finds solid tactics for understanding (and beating) procrastination in a technique called the pull method.

The blurb Merlin offers jives (and I do mean jive, as in grooves with, not jibe, which might mean something similar, but when I say JIVE I mean it, I'm not being ignorant--I just save my jibes for sailing) with my position on fear feeding procrastination.

Another tidbit from dear friend (who does not blog yet, but will soon, I bet!) who offered her favorite productivity tactic: making short specific lists with VERY achievable, doable items. "Write two paragraphs for big project" is much closer to being crossed out (and more apt to be crossed out) than "BIG project" would be.

**In other news**

Brian is one class meeting away from finishing the initial foray back-to-school. It is an algebra class for which he studies too often, worries too much about, and has earned more than 100% on each test.

I haven't told him this, but he is the kind of student that would drive me batshit. He emails his prof after each class, with concerns about notes and whatnot. She (prof) finally began emailing him his test grades immediately after grading, because he would worry so.

D, dear running partner, whose husband is also back to school after time away, assures me that B will relax once he realizes that he *can* do this.

I think I'm just married to a nerd. Which is fine by me.

Posted by mryonker at June 22, 2005 11:22 PM

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Posted by: senioritis at June 23, 2005 05:16 AM

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